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Amazed with Nature and Beauty, Photographer's Finding Islam,I was born from a mediocre family in Sweden. I lived for 25 years without really thinking about the existence of God, because I was a materialistic person.
When I was in high school, I remember well the time spent in the school library into a nerd. And when it was, I had to take and read the translation of the Quran and until I find a verse. I do not remember exactly what I was reading, which obviously I find that what the Quran reasonable and logical. However, I was not a religious person, and I also do not have any idols. I mean, we have Newton to explain how the universe works, is not it?
Time passed and I graduated from school and started working. I get the money and moved into an apartment. I became an amateur photographer and enrolled in photography activities.
One time, I documented the market and take photos from a distance with a telephoto lens. When it was an immigrant looks angry came and explained that he wanted to make sure that I could not take pictures of mother and sisters. I think the basis of the weird, the Muslims it!
Matters relating to Islam and again occur, I read almost all translations of the Quran and I found that all things are beautiful and logical. But still, God does not have a place in my heart. Until I met Shahida, he was an American woman who had converted to Islam, he is also my partner until the end of our friendship.
Shahida told the story of his spiritual journey found Islam. Shahida and I discuss Islam, faith in God, and everything that he told me to make sense to me. Shahida like angels who have the patience to face me, because slow thinking and my silly questions, but he never gave up. He told me, "Just listen to your heart, and you will find the truth."
Not suspected sayapun Alaihi Salam quickly discover the truth in me. AS on the way home from work, I took a bus and most people around me were sleeping. I saw the sunset, the beautiful clouds painted with pink and orange. At that time, like all the beauty come
began to understand how God could organize our lives, even though we are not a robot. I saw it might be dependent on the laws of physics and chemistry, but I am starting to believe and see God's work. It was beautiful.
One morning I woke up, my mind is clear Alaihi Salam a bell, and the first thought that ran through my mind was how to give thanks to God, that He made me wake up to another day full of opportunities. It was very natural, like I have been doing this every day of my life.
After this experience, I can no longer deny the existence of God. But after 25 years of denying God, it is not easy to acknowledge his existence. But nature, beauty, and meet Shahida are things that I'm grateful.
Slowly, my mind began to agree with my heart, and I began to imagine myself Alaihi Salam a Muslim. But what can I really get in Islam? Pray five times a day? Can stop eating pork? Can I really do it? And what about my family and friends?
And the summer vacation started, and I had to decide to become a Muslim. But early in the summer to be very cold. The next morning, the sky was so bright, with gusts of cold wind blowing outside the window of the room, it was like God had decided that this was the right time. I showered, dressed in clean clothes, jumped out of the car, and drove for an hour to go to the mosque. Trembling, I approached the people in the mosque, and expressed my desire became a Muslim, and after the noon prayer, the priest and several brothers watched me say Shahadat. And Islam-became an important part of my life. I began to pray regularly and leave the Friday prayers.
Not sure I tell my family and my friends about my Islam, and they all receive it. Of course, they can not understand all the things I do, like praying five times a day at a specific time or do not eat pork. They think these practices are strange alien habits that will die with time, but I will prove them wrong. Insha Allah.
That's a long journey of a photographer who discovered Islam through the beauty of nature and friend muallafnya AS abstracted from the site thetruereligion.Org.
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